Linn, Missouri.
Typical home $261,317 (-0.3% in a year). Jefferson City, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$754 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $679 -0%
- $261,996$261,317 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,966 +25%
- $209,352$261,317 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Linn$1,372
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Linn, MO fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Linn, Osage County, Missouri
Linn is a city of 1,350 people in Osage County. Half its households earn more than $36,176 a year and half less, against $76,681 across Osage County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Osage County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Linn is a small city and the seat of Osage County, Missouri. Its residents are younger than in many American towns, and household incomes here run well below the county's as a whole, with a good share of people living below the poverty line. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by government, shops and the building trades. Across Osage County, the largest workplaces include Quaker Window Co. - Main Plant, State Technical College of Missouri and Osage CO. R-iii Schools. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs. A typical commute is a modest drive, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Osage River is a short drive away and is the nearest big water, with Swan Creek and Brush Creek also close by for a quiet look at the Missouri countryside. A longer drive leads to Jefferson Landing State Historic Site, a protected area that recalls the state's river-town past. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, so the creeks and riverbanks are most pleasant in the milder seasons.
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- 538households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Osage County had 4,444 jobs in 2025, 3.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 10 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Freedom weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Osage County
- Quaker Window Co. - Main PlantMetal window and door manufacturing604
- State Technical College of MissouriTwo-year college282
- Osage Ambulances151
- Osage Co. R-iii SchoolsSchool district127FTE
- Osage Co. R-II SchoolsSchool district98FTE
- StoneBridge WestphaliaSkilled nursing facilities88
- Three Rivers Electric Cooperative - LinnElectric power distribution systems45
- Osage Co. R-I SchoolsSchool district28FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 888 people in all across the county; Linn has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Heat wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Linn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Osage County and the Jefferson City, MO metro.
Linn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Linn$261,317
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Linn13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Linn5
Zip codes with a Linn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Linn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.